Bird sitting about 50 cm away from the well camouflaged microphone, that was fixed on an old and out of use raised hunting hide, where it was originally set up to record woodlarks. The hoopoes calls were not audible from 30 meters distance where the recordist was hiding in some bushes. Note that the sound of the bird taking off in the end of the recording is almost as loud as the calls. From the stance the hoopoe flew into a tree and started to call for several minutes in normal loudness, well audible from more than 50 m away.
Recording equipment: Recording Equipment: 2 x Sennheiser MKH 20 in Crown SASS Housing, Sounddevices 702